As the school year is drawing to a close, the Perry School District is looking for ways to increase attendance at sporting events next year. 

At the most recent Perry School Board meeting, board members were discussing the issue. Superintendent Clark Wicks says one consideration was incentivizing people coming to extracurricular activities. 

“At least consider the idea of incentivizing people coming to a game, and maybe instead of talking about an increase of a dollar for admission, let’s talk about coming in and being part of the culture of extracurricular activities, specifically football. We also talked about having the youth be more involved.”

Wicks tells Raccoon Valley Radio some of the ideas for youth fans could be having them play sports during intermission. Wicks wants to increase the culture of partnership and getting youth to want to be part of the activities going at high school events. 

“We are going to talk to Mr. (Scott) Pierce, our activities director, and see what the possibilities are of maybe having a special game where we say, ‘folks let’s all show our Perry Pride. Come in support these kids win or lose’ and hopefully that can help build that culture.”

The Board will continue to discuss ideas at future meetings.